Congratulations to Mr Joachim Paetzold from The University of Sydney for being awarded the 2015 Postgraduate Award. Mr Paetzold was awarded the prize for the presentation of his PhD research on “Wind effects on parabolic trough collectors at different positions in the solar field“ at the 17th AWES Workshop in Wellington in February. The AWES congratulates Mr Paetzold on his achievement and wishes him the best of luck for his continued research.